David Hume was born in Edinburgh and showed an early inclination for study and writing. His most famous work, 'A Treatise of Human Nature', published anonymously in 1739-1740, was initially poorly received but later recognized as a landmark in the history of philosophy. Hume also made significant contributions to economics and history, writing a monumental 'History of England'. He was known for his analytical mind and skepticism, questioning causality and induction, and arguing that all knowledge derives from sensory experience. Despite his intellectual contributions, his academic career faced obstacles due to his views considered radical for the time. Hume passed away in Edinburgh in 1776.
Poems List
Bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
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No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
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In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controuls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave , and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.
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We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
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Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercis’d more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities, with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means, which she affords to the relieving these necessities.
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